Re: Another proposal for a "split" function to complement "mid"
On 2012-03-19 18:33:33 +0100, Arnold Neumaier wrote:
> But it depends on your solver what precisely you want to do. This is the
> reason why I don't think a canonical, standardized split routine makes
> sense. Different people have different tastes, and different problem classes
> may need different choices. (Michel Hack mentioned the case of a known
> singularity.)
>
> Whereas having a vanilla routine for the median of the set of floats in the
> interval is parameter-free and canonical, hence something one can
> standardize, and useful, as the programmer of a b&b method can use it as
> part of a customized splitting routine that takes the context into
> consideration.
I agree.
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